Back to my (great great great great grand) motherland
Work? Pfft, I'm going to have to work this week but I am in Greece. If you haven't worked it out, Stavrinides has a Greek origin.
Numerous times a year I'll get asked if I'm Greek and I always quib that I'm Mancunian. I self identify as Mancunian as this was my closest city growing up.
As genealogy goes, my lineage has a limit - as the Stavrinides name comes from a modest background, official records more than 100 years ago are somewhat scarce in recording peasant farmers and such. Stavrinides is a village in Cyprus and there are numerous (possibly) related Stavrinides's on the internet. Greece and Turkey have a family connection in terms of names and the curiosity of "who were they?" but also in my blood - literally! My DNA is Mediterranean (now heavily mixed with northern European and a number of other sources) and some of my characteristics are dominated by Mediterranean genes.
I have numerous Greek and Greece related anecdotes and the assumptions people make of me because of my name, but that's for another day.
As genealogy goes, my lineage has a limit - as the Stavrinides name comes from a modest background, official records more than 100 years ago are somewhat scarce in recording peasant farmers and such. Stavrinides is a village in Cyprus and there are numerous (possibly) related Stavrinides's on the internet. Greece and Turkey have a family connection in terms of names and the curiosity of "who were they?" but also in my blood - literally! My DNA is Mediterranean (now heavily mixed with northern European and a number of other sources) and some of my characteristics are dominated by Mediterranean genes.
I have numerous Greek and Greece related anecdotes and the assumptions people make of me because of my name, but that's for another day.
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